I can't fathom lifting someone inside a suitcase and then becoming frustrated in the mechanics of it to such a degree that the crime of kidnapping is abandoned and a brutal and very protracted murder is substituted for it.

I do know that a very experienced and honorable homicide investigator has a different opinion on this matter, but it still seems absurd to me.

Now I don't know what that suitcase weighed and as that commuter plane pilot found out the actual weight of a suitcase and a person can make a very big difference but I sure don't think it would be difficult to accomplish and you could always tape her mouth shut and shove her into the window well and then the suitcase...and put her inside it later. That way, you could go lugging a suitcase along the alley and not be lugging a six year old girl.

However, I see no real added weight or dimensional problems. The suitcase was a 'step' and I don't think it was anything more than a 'step'. If he had wanted to wait around for rigor mortis to set in, he would not have hesitated to have used JonBenet as a step.

Going to a waiting vehicle you don't need the victim in a suitcase. If you have no vehicle then you probably have no destination to take the victim anyway, so what do need to stuff her in the suitcase for?

I understand that JonBenet weighed 65pounds. So suitcase plus JonBenet would be 75 pounds. No big weight difference and certainly not a problem for someone capable of delivering that massive blow.

Dimensions of the window versus the suitcase? If a squatting Lou Smit can make it through that window, so could the suitcase.